April 2017

History Australia 14.1

The latest issue of History Australia is now available and features a collection of excellent articles from a range of historians including Amanda Nettelbeck, Jim Berryman and Amy McKernan, as

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Contemporary Histories blog

Contributions to this new blog explore contemporary histories and history-making. So far, contributors include Helen Gardner, David Lowe, Filip Slaveski, Mathew Turner, Carolyn Holbrook, Alyson Miller, Cassandra Atherton and Klaus

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‘Hidden in Plain View’

Congratulations to Paul Irish. His new book, to be published in May 2017. The book shows that although they were often ignored in colonial narratives, local Aboriginal people did not lose their

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History Australia 14.1

The latest issue of History Australia is now available and features a collection of excellent of articles from a range of historians including Amanda Nettelbeck, Jim Berryman and Amy McKernan,

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Newcastle 2018 Conference

Preparations for ‘Entangled Histories’, the AHA 2018 conference are coming along apace. Keynote speakers include Professor Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University; Professor

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NLA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships

The April 2017 round of the National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Association scholarships is now open. These awards assist talented postgraduate scholars with the cost of copying records held in

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‘Encounters with Asian Decolonisation’

Congratulations to David Fettling, for his recently published book Encounters with Asian Decolonisation (Australian Scholarly Publishing), which tells the story of how, five Australians, all government officials, experienced first-hand the

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Ernest Scott Prize winner

Congratulations to AHA member Tom Griffiths, whose book The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (Black Inc., 2016) has won the 2017 Ernest Scott Prize for History. This prestigious

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‘Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire’

Congratulations to Jane Lydon, whose new book Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Bloomsbury) explores how photographs, with their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, have long been a crucial means of

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